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> Our freedom is dependent on safeguarding our democracy, …

Yes, I agree.

> and that means no rules that don't trace their core to laws passed by elected representatives.

I think this is too strong of a claim. Why?

We live under many rules that don’t trace back to laws elected by elected representatives. Many of our laws descend from common law which predates representative democracy.

Not to mention that there are tremendous sources of power outside one’s governmental sphere that constrain our options, such as culture, corporations, and other governments. Whether one calls these “rules” or “constraints” is sort of beside the point when you focus on a society’s ability to respond to undesirable forces. This leads to how I would restate your claim…

Perhaps a more accurate statement would be this: freedom depends on mechanisms such that the people can drive policy.